CVE-2025-7049

WPGYM - Wordpress Gym Management System <= 67.7.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover

2025-09-09 17:42
Michelle Porter

Strategic Overview

Status
Unpatched
Affected Plugin
WPGYM - Wordpress Gym Management System
Affected Version
<= 67.7.0
CVSS
8.8High
Weakness type
CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE
CVE-2025-7049
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At a glance

CVE-2025-7049 is a high-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in the WPGYM - Wordpress Gym Management System WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 67.7.0. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed September 2025, reported by Michelle Porter.

Vulnerability Overview

The WPGYM - Wordpress Gym Management System plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 67.7.0 via the 'MJ_gmgt_gmgt_add_user' function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change the email, password, and other details of any user, including Administrator users.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

WPGYM - Wordpress Gym Management System <= 67.7.0 carries this weakness at MJ_gmgt_gmgt_add_user, and reaching it takes an account at Subscriber level or above. Authorization bypass through a user-controlled key, often called insecure direct object reference, means the application looks up a record by an identifier from the request without checking that the caller owns it.

Changing a number in the request is enough to read or modify other users' records, which on commerce and membership sites means customer data. No fixed build of this plugin is recorded for WPGYM - Wordpress Gym Management System yet, so installs running <= 67.7.0 stay exposed until the vendor ships one.

Remediation

No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. No patched version is recorded yet, which is the case where a filtering layer matters most, because there is nothing to update to.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-7049https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/17951f68-8481-477b-a940-cce637f6ec54https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-7049

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